• HorreC@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    We have seen governments use spies for 1000’s of years, how is this news?? Is it that they have ties to the CIA? I mean they have their fingers in all pies, I am sure the average person is only like 4 degrees separated from something CIA.

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        Remember when Obama told them to stop torturing people, and two years later it came out that they had actually continued torturing people and just lied about it all the way up the chain? Totally the work of a completely under-control and reasonable intelligence agency

        • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee
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          Definitely not a separate state operating within the bloated intelligence apparatus of a global superpower

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        Good is a matter of perspective. You’re okay with it now because it’s something you agree with.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The August 2022 attack is part of a raging shadow war in which Ukraine’s spy services have also twice bombed the bridge connecting Russia to occupied Crimea, piloted drones into the roof of the Kremlin and blown holes in the hulls of Russian naval vessels in the Black Sea.

    Even those who see such lethal missions as defensible in wartime question the utility of certain strikes and decisions that led to the targeting of civilians including Dugina or her father, Alexander Dugin — who officials acknowledge was the intended mark — rather than Russians more directly linked to the war.

    The statement did not specifically address targeted killings but Malyuk, who met with top CIA and other U.S. officials in Washington last month, said Ukraine “does everything to ensure that fair punishment will ‘catch up’ with all traitors, war criminals and collaborators.”

    The CIA’s deep partnership with Ukraine, which persisted even when the country became embroiled in the impeachment scandal surrounding President Donald Trump, represents a dramatic turn for agencies that spent decades on opposing sides of the Cold War.

    The CIA-Ukraine collaboration took root in the aftermath of 2014 political protests that prompted Ukraine’s pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych to flee the country, followed by Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its arming of separatists in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.

    The agency provided secure communications gear, eavesdropping equipment that allowed Ukraine to intercept Russian phone calls and emails, and even furnished disguises and separatist uniforms enabling operatives to more easily slip into occupied towns.


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